Crafting an Impactful Career Path Through Disruptive Technology: How an Inclusive and Equitable Culture can become an Opportunity

Crafting an Impactful Career Path Through Disruptive Technology:
"How an Inclusive and Equitable Culture can become an Opportunity"
Sunday, 21 May 2023
2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) - Monterey, CA, USA

Read the WiCAS at ISCAS 2023 Activity Report

Panel Discussion

The WiCAS panelists - all women in leadership positions, with excellent records of accomplishment in their fields - shared their research interests, their personal and professional paths, as well as precious experiences and advice with the conference attendees. The panel discussion was a lively and well-attended session on the impact of the gender gap and cognitive biases in women’s careers. After the session, a WiCAS cocktail was organized to thank all the attendees for their participation, and promotional WiCAS items were distributed to all the participants during the social event.

Panelists

Ayesha Mayhugh - Hexa Global Ventures, USA
Irene Quek - d-Matrix, USA

Awards

Awards were announced during the ISCAS 2023 awarding ceremony.

“WiCAS Best Paper Award”
Helia Ordouei, from the Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany, for the paper titled “A Digital Pre-Distortion Technique Canceling Code-and Voltage-Dependent Output Impedance Errors in Current-Steering DACs”.

“WiCAS Runner Ups” 
Cihan Ruan, from the Santa Clara University, Santa Clara (CA), USA, for the paper titled “Efficient DNA-Based Image Coding and Storage”

“WiCAS Runner Ups”
Jiajia Wu, from the University of California, San Diego (CA), USA, for the paper titled “A Low-Noise 0.001Hz-1kHz Sample-Level Duty-Cycling Neural Recording System-on-Chip”.